Join us in celebrating Gallery 44's late winter exhibitions, opening in conjunction with Salon 44!
In the Vitrines, 2025 Verant Richards Award recipient Aleksandra Blazevski explores how meaning dissolves and reconfigures through technological systems, perception and institutional framing. Through sculptural interventions and photographic processes, including welded spirals of picture frames, degraded self-portraits transferred onto darkroom trays and etched copper images warped into convex forms, Blazevski questions what it means to see and who controls the conditions of sight. A Mirror That Forgets, A Frame That Spirals traces how images fragment, circulate and anchor memory, destabilizing their presumed neutrality—and engages phenomenology and media theory to ask how visual culture shapes identity, visibility and the unstable ontology of the image.
In the Production Gallery, Corpus Obscura features work by seven participants of the Trans and Gender Expansive Darkroom Workshop (2025–2026). Facilitated by Jackson Bailey, with teaching assistant Jayan Singh, the exhibition brings together work developed within a shared darkroom space, grounded in process, experimentation, and skill-sharing. Across black-and-white prints, photographic sequences, and material interventions, the works engage photography as a site of becoming.
